Word: waters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Widener Library Treasure Room has on exhibit a number of interesting historical objects, including a water-color drawing of Harvard College, done in 1794 by Jonathan Fisher, and showing Holden Chapel, and Hollis, Harvard, and Massachusetts Halls. A feature of this drawing is that the window panes, instead of being painted in black, are pricked with a pin, so that the back ground shows through and gives the impression of depth...
...times were good, according to Coach Jaakko, Mikkola, considering the condition of the course, which was wet all the way and at some places was standing a foot under water. The University runners took first, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth places, while Captain Fitzpatrick of Holy Cross placed second after a fighting finish...
...numerous and consist of broadcasting radio reports to all vessels in the vicinity, making charts of the behavior of the bergs and of studying general oceanic conditions. The Green-Bigelow bottle, invented by H. B. Bigelow '01, of the Peabody museum, is used extensively in the study of water at different depths...
...year to drift down from Baffin Bay to the Northern area of the Banks. Their length at this time averages about five city blocks, while their height runs from 200 to 300 feet. It was calculated that there are usually some 100,000 tons of ice above the water, and since the bergs ride about seven-eights under water, the total weight of each is about 800,000 tons. Icebergs have a most mystifying habit of seeking cold pockets in the ocean. When a berg is traveling South at its serene and prescribed rate of half a knot an hour...
...destroyed by nature are varied. The pounding of the heavy seas, rain, and the warm Gulf Stream which meets the Labrador cur- rent on the Banks, all contribute to the gradual erosion of the huge ice mountains. Warm heavy fogs rising from the mixture of warm and cold water are a big factor in the slow decay of the bergs...